Today's New York Times is running a very interesting article on the next battle over RFID: the mass rollout out proximity-based consumer credit cards. The latest fuss particularly relates to alleged defects in the implementation of RFID that allow researchers (and perhaps malevolent folks) to read cards en clair from a distance. See: Researchers See Privacy Pitfalls in No-Swipe Credit Cards - New York Times.
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